BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division[2] of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online news coverage.[3][4] The service has over 5,500 Journalists working across its output[5] including in 50 foreign news bureaus where more than 250 foreign correspondents are stationed.[6]
This article is about the organisation within the BBC. For the television channel, see BBC News (TV channel). For other uses, see BBC News (disambiguation).Company type
BBC department
14 November 1922
Specific services for United Kingdom and rest of world
- Deborah Turness
(CEO, News and Current Affairs) - Jonathan Munro
(Director of Journalism and Deputy CEO)
Radio, internet, and television broadcasts
7,000 (5,500 journalists)[1]
Deborah Turness has been the CEO of news and current affairs since September 2022.[7]
In 2019, it was reported in an Ofcom report that the BBC spent £136m on news during the period April 2018 to March 2019.[8] BBC News' domestic, global and online news divisions are housed within the largest live newsroom in Europe, in Broadcasting House in central London. Parliamentary coverage is produced and broadcast from studios in London. Through BBC English Regions, the BBC also has regional centres across England and national news centres in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. All nations and English regions produce their own local news programmes and other current affairs and sport programmes.
The BBC is a quasi-autonomous corporation authorised by royal charter, making it operationally independent of the government.